[^\^]

[toylet]

Why does it match "^"? Doesn't [^] mean "not a caret"?

the program I used:

while (<>) {
/[^\^]/ && print "not a caret\n";
}

I inputted "^", and the message printed.

 

[Paul Lalli]

Why does it match "^"? Doesn't [^] mean "not a caret"?

the program I used:

while (<>) {
/[^\^]/ && print "not a caret\n";
}

I inputted "^", and the message printed.

You didn't chomp the input. The regular expression matched by matching
the newline character to the pattern "anything that's not a carrot".

Paul Lalli

 

[Beable van Polasm]

Why does it match "^"? Doesn't [^] mean "not a caret"?

the program I used:

while (<>) {
chomp;

/[^\^]/ && print "not a caret\n";

# don't need the backslash
/[^^]/ && print "not a caret\n";

}

I inputted "^", and the message printed.

The newline wasn't a caret.

--

 

[toylet]

chomp;

The newline wasn't a caret.

dong.. thank you two.

 

[Matt Garrish]

Why does it match "^"? Doesn't [^] mean "not a caret"?

the program I used:

while (<>) {
/[^\^]/ && print "not a caret\n";
}

I inputted "^", and the message printed.

You didn't chomp the input. The regular expression matched by matching
the newline character to the pattern "anything that's not a carrot".

Quit wathcing Looney Tunes! Carrots aren't carats aren't carets... : )

Matt